Union suit.



W. H. BILBROUGH. l

UNION SUIT. 1122110111011 FILED 11ov.1s. 19`oo.

Patented July 114, 1914. A

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'UNION SUIT.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 14, 1914;

Application led November 18, 1999. Seria1No.52i3,651.

To all whom. it may concern:

.Be it known that l, Willman H. BIL- nnonon, a citizen of' the United States, residing at Elmira Heights, in the county of Chemung and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Union Suits, o Which the' followwhereby said portions will be rendered elas tic in the right direction to give freedom ott motion and comfort to the wearer.

l attain my object by constructing the garments in the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which-d Figure l shows one of the iiap portions as the garment; Fig'. 2, a rear view of a union suit, showing the flaps as applied thereto; `and Fig. 3, a front view of the same.

Like. letters of reference designate like parts in the'several views.

As is usuai, the body and leg portions of this union suit are in one piece, out from tubular knitted goods, with the Wales running longitudinaily from top to bot-tom. The two i'lap portions, A and A are cut in the shape shown in Fig. i, from' the same knitted materials, with the wales, however, running preferably diagonally', as shown in the several figures. The body portion of the garment at the back is cut from the crotch to the Waist line and the flaps A and A are sewed in along this cut on the lines a b and a' o', to hang in opposite positions across the back of the. garment. The Hap A is served in at the waist line along the line a, c, at the outside the garment, while the flap A is served aloxig the same line extended at lthe insidevoi the garment from a' to c. At their lower ends the fiaps are cut on a convex 'curve I (l, these curved ends being brought around to the front and sewed in to the leg portions along the lines 7 d, and 7) (Z, as shown more clearly in Fig. 3. liy reason of the convex ends, the flaps, where united to these front gusset seams 7; rZ and 7;' d', provide a fullness at each side ot the crotch line which is adapted to serve as a suspensory. This fullness also insures the closin of the crotch opening and the comfort oi the wearer atthis point, the inside flap being turned up inside ofthe outside iap, as shown more clearly bythe broken lines in Fig. 3 By cuttin the flaps with their longitudinal edges su'stantially parallel, or slightly broader at the bottom than at the top, there will be a broad overlap at each side of the back opening and around the crotch opening, thus insuring a complete closing of these openings in any position of the wearer ot Along the line c d, and. c (l, the two flaps are left free, being folded over on .the broken line shown in Fig. 1, to form a hem, which is served with an elastic stitching,

the garment.`

whereby these free edges of the fiaps Will-j` be rendered longitudinally elastic.

in order to provide for the longitudinal stretching of the flaps, under the motions of thLLWearer, the Wales may be run transversely, or, in other words, at right angles to the Wales of the body of the garment.

.wales will run diagonally, for the reason that, where the wales are run horizontally across the fiaps, a permanent set is apt to be produced by reason ofthe stretching motions, which renders the flaps loose and baggy. By running the wales diagonally, however, in a direction oblique to the horizontal, this tendency to permanent set is counteracted, for the reason that the lines of elasticity do not coincide with the lines of pull produced by the motions of the body.

Vlhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- 1. A garment having a central longitudi nal slit in the back thereof, said slit extending a short distance down the inner side of one of the leg portions, an elongated oursided flap having one of its longitudinal edges secured along one edge of said slit, and its other longitudinal edge free, and having its upper edge secured across the back of the garment, and its lower edge convexly curved and secured along the front edge of the slit in the leg portion of the garment, whereby the free edge of said flap extends from the point of attachment of the upper edge to the front edge of the slit in the leg portion. Y

2. A union suit comprising united leg and body portions formed from a tubular knitted fabric, the body portion being slit 'atso prefer, however, to so cut the flaps that the the back' from the Waist line to theorotcii, in :combination with two oppositely diso's'ed rear flaps, out broader at the bottom thm at the top, the up er ends of said .fiaps @being unitedA to the bo y'portion along the fwaist line in overlapping arrangement, the

o l remote longitudinal edestf the aps bev ing ree; the adjacent e ges being united to the correspondmgly opposite edges of the tu elit in the body portion, and the lower ends v 1 of the Hops being out veonvexly and united tothe leg portions along the front gusset seams, whereby a fullness is produced in both leg portions at the crotch, as and for the purpose described. K lo Inv testimony whereof I have eiiixed my signature, in presence of two Witnesses.

Witnesses s" M. VERBECK, VEUGENE DMN'. 

